Frances Vernon

Who was Frances Vernon?

Frances Vernon was a British novelist.

She wrote her first novel Privileged Children at the age of sixteen. It won the Author's Club First Novel Award. She studied briefly at New Hall, Cambridge but soon left to continue her writing. She produced five more novels: Gentlemen and Players, A Desirable Husband, The Bohemian Girl, The Marquis of Westmarch and finally The Fall of Doctor Onslow, which was published shortly before her death at the age of twenty-seven.